37 Mind Your Words

Aliya reached the location a little late still the shoot didn't begin. So she sighed in relief. She followed the manager to Bhavna's huge vanity van. When she entered, she felt as if she was in a hotel room. Everything was provided in the van itself. She saw Bhavna in front of a dressing table doing her touch-up.

"Good morning ma'am. Here are your bags."

"Oh! Aliya. What non-sense! Don't call me 'madam'. You are my dearest friend and I won't like if you address me like this."

"Okay! So are you ready?"

"Yes, just waiting for the call. By the way what happened.... when I left?"

"Don't worry. I haven't said him anything."

"I was really scared. He has done such things that... He is such an eccentric and insane person!"

"BHAVNA! Mind your words!"

Bhavna who was busy applying some lipstick on her lips flinched, resulting in making a slant pink line across her face. Her 1 hour of hardwork behind her whole makeup was all in vain. Because Aliya was not such a shameless person to laugh at her own deed, she didn't laugh. But seeing Bhavna's appearance she had to try hard to resist her urge to do so.

"I...I am sorry, Bhavna. It was an instinctive reaction."

"It is okay. Don't panic. But why your instincts told you to react in this way? I mean... It seems that Rishi has finally made it to have a good image of himself in your eyes."

"Uhh...What? What does it mean? If I take the literal meaning, then yes, he is not a bad man for me now. But if you are speaking it otherwise, then no, for me he is only my boss."

"Oh okay! Anyways.... Now it is your payback time. Clean the mess you caused on my face."

"Hahah! Sure."

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AFTER THE FIRST PART OF THE SHOOT

Aliya was packing up Bhavna's and her things on the set. She experienced a photo shoot for the first time. So for her it was not only a good but a 'chilling' experience. Meanwhile in all this chaos, her eyes kept searching for Rishi, but they couldn't search him. After all, why a CEO will have that much time to spend in a photo shoot. When she spotted his assistant manager, Mr. Kumar, she chased him and asked

"May I know where is Mr.Rishi?"

"He has just gotten into Bhavna's vanity van. He has told not to let anyone disturb him while he is inside."

"Okay. Is he free after.....

Before she could ask, Mr.Kumar answered her and vanished in a blink of her eyes.

"Yes."

After thinking where this soul had vanished, she decided to wait outside the van. It was already cold out there. Although she had at least 3 layers of thick clothes hung on her body, she was still shivering. Everyone had gotten inside the vanity vans and buses provided as there were no hotels near the location. Except Aliya, there were two or three spot boys winding up everything. One of them asked Aliya

"Madam you should go inside this van. There is half an hour left for the next shoot to start."

"I would have... but there is some confidential meeting taking place inside."

"But madam you are Ms.Bhavna's assistant. You must be present there."

"Oh yeah right! Thanks for reminding me."

The spot boy's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. He thought whether this lady is really fine or yesterday's incident has affected her conscience.

'Have a look at this man's confused look, oh dear me! How can I forget that I am her assistant? Moreover Mr.Kumar warned me not to go inside. Did he too forgot about it? Or is it something highly confidential? Oh God! I don't even have any training as an assistant and my idiot boss has kept me as an assistant. Here we go... I warned Bhavna to mind her words and now I am myself abusing him..... I think I have got brain freeze here. Either due to this weather or due to a lot of confusion. Ugh!"

Banging her right leg in frustration on the snow covered land, Aliya turned back and asked one of the guards standing outside the van to let her go. After a few seconds, the door was open for her.